ÐReal-time middleware services must guarantee predictable performance under specified load and failure conditions, and ensure graceful degradation when these conditions are violated. Guaranteed predictable performance typically entails reservation of resources and use of admission control. Graceful degradation, on the other hand, requires dynamic reallocation of resources to maximize the applic...

In this paper, we present Trust-X , a comprehensive XML-based [12] framework for trust negotiations, specifically conceived for a peer-to-peer environment. Trust negotiation is a promising approach for establishing trust in open systems like the Internet, where sensitive interactions may often occur between entities at first contact, with no prior knowledge of each other. The framework we propo...

Negotiation support systems (NSS) can enhance humans’ performance in negotiations. Much research in this area focuses on finding optimal bids. However, there is little research on human factors in technological negotiation support. We believe an in-depth analysis of the task involving experts and users is needed to build a new generation of NSS focusing on manmachine collaboration. We describe ...

This paper described the main idea of the MACBETH approach and M-MACBETH software to multicriteria negotiation analysis. The MACBETH is based on the additive value model and requires only qualitative judgments about differences of attractiveness to help a decision maker quantify the relative value of options or criteria. The main goal of this procedure is to support interactive learning about e...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the negotiation processes of Japanese participants in a multi-party meeting and to identify some characteristics of “naïve negotiation,” our tentative naming for the style of negotiation in which participants share neither particular knowledge on the topics nor specific procedures to reach a conclusion. The first half of the analysis concerns the stru...

A major impediment to the adoption of Negotiation and group support systems is that they are often developed as stand-alone applications and do not seamlessly integrate with tools that use everyday work process. In this paper, we discuss a group and negotiation support system that is embedded with work productivity tools and tools that support synchronous and asynchronous information exchange. ...

Significant advances in manufacturing technology and the rapid intensification of the Internet and electronic commerce diffusion have given rise to competitive differentiation and rapid adaptability to competitive change. New product development is a complex and collaborative process that requires negotiation and joint decisionmaking. We propose a fuzzy electronic negotiation (e-negotiation) su...

The proliferation of the digital economy has created a need for firms to negotiate business deals online. Negotiation support tools are likely to play a more critical role in web portal sites, manufacturer-supplier procurement sites, and on-line exchanges. Prior research has shown that negotiators concern themselves with fairness because they care about building and strengthening business relat...

In this paper, we propose an intelligent clearinghouse, an electronic marketplace with computer-mediated negotiation that supported with both data and textual information about the dynamic markets. Most existing electronic market systems support relatively stable markets: traders are not allowed to revise their bids and offers once they are entered to the system. The intelligent clearinghouse a...

1 0-7803-5846-5/00/$10.00 © 2000 IEEE Affordability and responsiveness are two key requirements for the next generation of aircraft support systems. Aircraft have to be repaired with minimum downtime and the support process has to be economical and efficient. The vision of Autonomic Logistics (AL) entails a maintenance and support system that can autonomously respond to “events”, e.g. problems ...